COLUMN

That was quite a smoke
screen Phog Allen sent up
yesterday in pre-arranging
for the dates and site for a
Big’ Six basketball playoff.
Just as if he doesn’t intend to
bump off Oklahoma at Nor-
man Friday for a clean-cut
title! The man is cagey.

Bruce Drake, young coach of
‘the Sooners, may have figured this
out. After grabbing enough of
the bait to challenge Allen’s right
to select Wichita—what about the
Big Six rule against off-campus
competition?—-Drake receded and
announced: “We're thinking only
of Friday’s contest.” Perhaps
Drake has seen Allen’s hypnotics
work on the Big Six before. At the
K,. U. coach’s suggestion, tinkering
has been done with circles on the
floor, twelve-foot baskets, bigger
hoops,- hoops with lights on them,
smaller balls, dotted lines and
dozens of other innovations. All
the while, Allen has sawed wood
and won under the rules in vogue.
Perhaps Drake and some of the
other coaches are beginning to
fathom Allen’s wizardry.

Allen’s refusal to set back
the date for the Fifth Dis-
trict N. C. A. A. playoff. be-
tween the Big Six champion
and the Oklahoma Aggies will
bring about another innova-
tion—flying to games. The
Missouri Valley champions will

 

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Drake Questions Allen’s

 

the Metropolitan Invitation
tournament in Madison Square
Garden, New York, the night
of March 15, then grab a plane
for Oklahoma City to meet
the Big Six champs the next
night. There’s never an idle
moment with this man Allen
around.

You can hear that WIBW has
sold Ernie Quigley’s “You Can't
Do That” program to the Colum-
bia Chain, for delivery next au-
tumn. ... High school basketball
teams coming to Topeka next week
may again find housing problems.
A druggist convention also is billed
the first three days of the week.
And the D. A. R. will start coming
in on Saturday. ... Jack Johnson,
the Fort Hays State captain, will
join the E. G. Stevens ‘club of
Wichita for the Kansas A. A. U.
tournament. . . . Chicago papers
used double-column art on Wes
Fry’s mug when the ex-Kansas
State coach was signed by North-
western.

_ The six-inch board floor in

Hoch Auditorium, where the

K. U. team plays basketball,

is set on solid concrete. And

the Jayhawks can’t practice
there more than twice a week
without several cases of shin
splints resulting. Bring on that
field house. .. . Bill Monypeny,

Southwestern’s coach, recently

won the Central Conference

basketball title while in bed.

He had retired last Saturday

night when friends called to

inform him that St. Benedict’s
had beaten Fort Hays State,
that Wichita had bumped

 

the title with Hays and Pitt
as a result.
Steve O’Rourke, Detroit scout,

jhas received his. unconditional re-

lease from the Springfield Cardi-
nals of the Western Association,
according to the Sporting News,
after being on the voluntary re-
tired list for twenty years. Fol-
lowing his management of the
Cardinals in 1920, O’Rourke was
placed on the list and his name
had never been removed. Because
of his alliance with the Tigers,
Steve thought it best to remove
any technical connection with the
Cardinals which © Commissioner
Landis might question and asked
for his reinstatement so that he
could be officially released.

Joplin’s Yankee output in the
W. A. this year will work with
Binghampton, N. Y., instead of the
Kansas City Blues. ... Ferrell
Anderson, rumpus-stirring catcher,
goes to Norfolk in the Class B
Piedmont League; Outfielder Ar-
nold Traxler and Pitcher Ken
Jacobsen to Wenatchee of the
Western International. . . . Harl
Hamilton, the St. Joe owner, and
Gene Sullivan, sports editor of the
St. Joseph Gazette, visited yester-
day with Pete Mitchell, owner
of the Owls. ... Mitchell also got
a wire from Hack Wilson saying
he planned to don a suit in the San
Francisco Seal camp today.

Members of the Hi-12 Club

yesterday not only heard E.

C. Quigley ramble twenty-five

minutes thru his interesting

athletic career but they got
tokens to boot. E. C. Nash,
who introduced Quig, was pre-
sented a leather-bound copy

 

present got a miniature Na-
tional League baseball and the "
youngest received an auto-
_ graphed ball used in the third
game of last year’s world
series. . . , Billy Dewell, the
former S, M. U. athlete, is
visiting in Newton and Dodge
City prior to reporting for
pitching service at Muskogee
again.

Note to Kenny (Pitt Sun
Simons: I say Ernie (One Grand
Schmidt was six-feet-three whe
he played in your town. My op
ponent in a small wager says h
was only six-two. Who wins?..
Incidentally, Schmidt’s  scorin;
record in the Central Conference
was not broken by Francis Lync!
of St. Benedicts, as some have i
ferred. Schmidt’s 1932 averag
was 15 points per game. Lyncl
averaged 13.6 which was bette
than Lloyd Tucker’s 13.4 of a yea:
ago. ... The Ottawa Herald fron
paged an editorial on Dick God
love following his seventh straigh
Kansas Conference championshij
Monday. The essence was this
“Godlove’s teams are smarter tha
their rivals.”

Basketball
Popularity
Is Growing

New York, March 6.—(A. P.)
Basketball is fifty years old, bu
it keeps attracting more and more
attention.

 

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Pittsburg. His team shared

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In answer to an Associated